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A dealer of unreleased and stolen famous musicians’ tracks is sentenced

A dealer of stolen unreleased music from famous musicians via the dark web through cryptocurrency exchanges has been today sentenced/imprisoned (3 January 2025).

Skylar Dalziel, 22, of Luton, was sentenced today to 21 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months at Luton Crown Court for 14 counts related to purchasing and selling of copyrighted music without the consent of the recording artists or label.

Charges authorised over Manchester Airport incident

Two men have been charged with offences after an incident at Manchester Airport on 23 July 2024.

The Crown Prosecution Service has today charged two men with assaults on police officers.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, is charged with two offences of causing actual bodily harm, one charge of assaulting an emergency worker and one charge of common assault. Muhammed Amaad, 25, is charged with causing actual bodily harm.

No police officers will be charged.

The two defendants will appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 16 January 2025.

Man who brutally murdered woman on Bournemouth beach in random attack is convicted

A man who brutally murdered a woman on Bournemouth beach and tried to kill her friend in a randomly targeted yet carefully planned attack has been convicted.

Former police officer and his mother sentenced after perverting course of justice by burying evidence in garden

Former police officer Lewis Edwards and his mother Rebekah Edwards have been sentenced after attempting to conceal crucial evidence following an online child abuse and blackmail case.

Woman sentenced after milkshake thrown at parliamentary candidate

Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, was given a suspended prison sentence at Westminster Magistrates’ Court after admitting to assault by beating when she threw a milkshake at Nigel Farage MP.

Prosecutors publish updated ‘deception as to sex’ guidance

UPDATED prosecution guidance which clarifies the law on when deceiving someone or failing to disclose birth sex could affect consent in rape cases, has been published today by the Crown Prosecution Service.

Police officer jailed for passing sensitive information to known criminal

A PC has been jailed for illegally accessing police computer systems and passing sensitive information to a known criminal she had a relationship with.

PC Lorna Pennycook, 38, researched information across various West Midlands Police systems between 2017 and 2021 and passed information to boyfriend Anthony Kennedy.

Man sentenced for planning terrorist attack at law firm

A man who planned a terrorist attack at a London law firm and made a threat to kill a solicitor has been sentenced to a hospital order.

Cavan Medlock, 32, walked into the office of the law firm in Harrow shortly before 5pm on 7 September 2020 and asked to see a solicitor by name.

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother convicted of her murder

The father and stepmother of a 10-year-old girl whose body was discovered in her bed after the family had fled to Pakistan have today been convicted of her murder.

Rotherham rioter sentenced for arson and violent disorder

A rioter who took part in violent disorder at the Holiday Inn Express, Rotherham, in August 2024 has been sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court today.

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